Things to do in Xundian

Fenglong Bay Fairy Town Aladdin Town

Fenglongwan Fairytale Town is located on the bank of Fenglongwan Reservoir in Xundian County, Kunming City, about an hour's drive from the city. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with dense vegetation and pleasant climate all year round. The scenic spot features the integration of European fairytale architecture and natural landscapes, creating an immersive holiday destination that integrates leisure, parent-child and photography. The core area of ​​the scenic spot is inspired by fairytale elements. It has built European-style buildings such as antique castles, windmills, and pointed-roof wooden houses, with winding trails and mirror-like lakes. You can take a blockbuster photo with just one shot. The children's play area also has tree houses, slides and other facilities, which are suitable for parent-child interactive play. The surrounding 10,000 mu of horsetail flower sea (blooming in spring), wetland plank roads and water-friendly platforms provide a variety of activities such as hiking, cycling, and picnics. When the lake is covered with thin ice in winter, the mist is like a fairyland. There are also handicraft workshops and intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls in the scenic area, where tourists can experience traditional skills such as tie-dyeing and pottery to add cultural interest.

Beidaying Grassland

Xundian Beidaying Grassland is located in the northeast of Xundian County, 23 kilometers away from the county seat. It has 18,000 acres of ecological grass mountains and 36 square kilometers of sightseeing and tourist areas. Every summer, thousands of acres of grasslands are covered with lush grass and cattle and sheep roaming. Beidaying Grassland Tourism Development focuses on planning and introduces foreign capital, and the development of Beidaying Grassland has achieved initial results. It mainly utilizes the advantages of grasslands, hot springs, hills, isolated mountains, waterfalls, mountain springs, river valleys, complex terrain, and natural landscapes, and focuses on the development of grassland film and television bases, western towns, horse clubs, grass skiing, off-road jeeps, Hot Air Balloon Rides and other tourism projects, which have strong and obvious advantages. The total planned area of ​​Xundian Beidaying Grassland is 36 square kilometers, covering an area of ​​18,000 acres.

Fenglong Bay International Tourism Resort

Fenglongwan Town is located at the junction of Xundian County, Kunming City and Malong County, Qujing City. It is the core attraction of Fenglongwan Tourist Resort. There are many Internet celebrity buildings in the Attraction. This is a theme park built based on the fairy tale of "Aladdin's Lamp" in "One Thousand and One Nights". Scenes from the story can be seen everywhere, such as Aladdin's Lamp, Persian Flying Carpet, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves and Open Sesame. The Attraction is full of European-style buildings, from castles to signboards and public toilets, all of which are full of European craftsmanship, making you feel like you are in Europe without leaving the country. At present, the tourist reception center, sightseeing train, Cruise, waterfront wooden plank road, waterfall restaurant, cabin hotel, Hobbit hut, etc. in the town have been built. You can taste local ecological food, stay in a romantic castle hotel, take a tourist train, ride a water yacht, visit the flower sea farm, visit the strange house village, and experience various water, land and air entertainment projects.

Fenglong Mountain

Jinxiu Garden Colorful Slope

Colorful Slope and Jinxiu Garden are actually the same piece of land, but viewing them from different angles will bring different visual impacts. Jinxiu Garden is known as the fine work of earth embroidery and the masterpiece of farming culture.

Fenglongwan Reservoir

Fenglongwan Reservoir is located in Qixing Town, 16km southeast of Xundian County. It is a medium-sized reservoir. The reservoir was first built in 1958. The dam type is a homogeneous earth dam with a height of 23m, a total storage capacity of 22.51 million m, and an irrigation area of 23,000 acres. The controlled runoff area above the dam site is 957km', the multi-year average water inflow is 383 million m', and the multi-year average total sediment volume entering the reservoir is 69,400 m'. The reservoir is composed of main dam, spillway, culvert, water conveyance channel, tunnel and other buildings. It is a backbone water conservancy project with social welfare nature integrating flood control, irrigation and water supply. It is mainly responsible for Xundian County (Rende Street), Flood control, farmland irrigation and water diversion tasks in the industrial parks of Qixing Town and Hekou Town. Fenglong Bay Scenic Area relies on Fenglong Bay Reservoir, more than 10 kilometers away from the county seat, connected to the Malong River in the east, Zhongling Mountain, a national forest park, in the south, and connected to Beidaying Grassland in the north. The Guiyang-Kunming Railway passes through it, and the Fenglong Bay Group The mountains are green and surrounded by blue waves. The mountains are like phoenixes and the water is like dragons. The mountains and rivers complement each other. It is the place where you can find seclusion, secrets, love and fun on your journey to Xundian. Fenglong Bay Scenic Area is 15 kilometers long, with long winding streams and twists and turns, forming hundreds of magical landscapes. Take a speedboat to pass through Longmen Gorge, Dieshui Gorge, Lianhua Island, Fengyan Cave, and visit Shibanhe Customs Garden. In this paradise, the blue sky, clear water, mountains, tree shadows and the beautiful egret fairy merge into one, forming flowing paintings and wordless songs. It is a beautiful picture of the harmonious development of man and nature. In "Longmen Gorge", the valley is narrow and the water surface is winding. We don't know how much scenery lurks on the road ahead. The green peaks on both sides are green, and we don't know what kind of creatures are hidden among them. The deep and quiet artistic conception requires us to appreciate it with our eyes and heart. Just imagine, on a starry night, holding a long wormwood, carrying a boat full of stars, and wandering deeper into the tranquility, you will feel the boundless sounds of nature floating in, as if you were born from another world. Dieshui Gorge has rugged rocks, waterfalls and secluded streams. Climb up the stairs along the bottom of the canyon, step on a pure land of red dust, watch the majestic "Fenglong Waterfall", and enjoy the spring scenery of camellia in the garden; stay overnight in the small bamboo house of the Miao Village, taste Miao cuisine, drink Miao wine, and chat with the Miao family The girls danced and sang together.

Xundian Stonehenge

Xundian Stonehenge is located in Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, and is part of the Henghe Liangzi Black-necked Crane Nature Reserve. It is famous for its unique natural landscape and outdoor hiking experience, and is known as the "Stonehenge". There are huge stones of various shapes distributed in the Attraction, with small pits on the surface as if they were gnawed by insects, like the remains of a fallen meteor, scattered among the rolling grassy hills, and together with the blue sky, white clouds and vast meadows, it forms a magnificent natural picture. As an ideal destination for outdoor hiking and photography, it attracts many tourists to explore. Natural landscape Giant stone wonders: In the continuous mountains, there are a large number of strange and uniquely shaped giant stones. These stones are large or small, smooth or abrupt, like large stones left by falling meteors. They have different expressions and are scattered in the mountains with soft curves, forming a unique "Stonehenge" landscape, as if they are works of art carefully carved by nature, which makes people sigh at the uncanny craftsmanship of nature. Vast meadows: There are large green velvet-like meadows here, with lush greenery and grass swaying gently in the breeze. There are also flowers of various colors blooming on the meadows, bright yellow, romantic purple, pure white, and deep blue, which are intertwined together to form a colorful flower carpet. Clear water system: Clear streams gush out from the wetlands and flow into small lakes, which are like bright pearls inlaid on this land. The streams are divided into rivers and then flow into the Qingshui Sea, making this place one of the important water sources in Kunming. Forests and shrubs: Small bush-like pine trees dot the large meadow, becoming an exquisite embellishment of this beautiful scenery. In addition, there is a dense forest at the bottom of the mountain, adding vitality and vigor to the entire Attraction. Ecological resources Animal resources: This is the Black-necked Crane Nature Reserve. Every year from September to March of the following year, a large number of black-necked cranes fly thousands of miles from the far north to overwinter and breed here. In addition, on the meadow, you can also see cattle and sheep leisurely grazing on fresh grass and lazily rolling around. They complement the natural landscape and form a harmonious ecological picture. Plant resources: In addition to the wild grasses and flowers all over the mountains, there are also many plants such as fern hemp and sea daffodil. Fern hemp, formerly known as ginseng fruit, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Potentilla in the Rosaceae family, with small golden flowers; sea daffodil is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Primula in the Primulaceae family, with rich flower colors and a long flowering period, and has a high ornamental value.

Xinghe Hot Spring SPA

The Galaxy Hot Spring SPA Resort Hotel covers an area of ​​1,000 acres and has an ecological landscape plaza of about 20,000 square meters, an 800-meter-long American town leisure pedestrian street, 200 waterscape villas, a hot spring international hotel, a banquet hall, a multi-function conference center, a hot spring SPA center, 100 outdoor hot spring pools, and a water entertainment center. The hotel is located in the scenic Reba-Tangzi Town of Xundian, on the bank of the gentle and beautiful Niulan River. It is 75 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming, a 60-minute drive, 45 minutes away from Qujing, the second largest city in Yunnan, 15 minutes away from Xundian County, and 30 minutes away from Songming County. The transportation is extremely convenient, with no traffic jams or detours. The "Tang Tian Xia" hot spring SPA center has 101 indoor and outdoor pools and dry and wet steam saunas. The hot spring SPA is a unique high-temperature self-spraying sulfur hot spring with a history of thousands of years. Its temperature is maintained at around 76℃ all year round, and the water flow is 389㎡/hour. It is richer in minerals and trace elements that are beneficial to the human body than ordinary hot springs, and is a natural "health-preserving" hot spring water; the SPA has a total of 6 exotic pool islands and more than 100 indoor and outdoor pools. The sky SPA, movie theater, book bar, water park, recreation center... can accommodate 2,000 people at the same time to enjoy this original ecological "feast" given by nature. Therefore, Xinghe Hot Spring is also known as "Tang Tian Xia". At the same time, the SPA introduces the original open-air singing and dancing of Yunnan, and you can enjoy performing arts activities while soaking in the hot springs.

No. 5 of Best Things to Do in Yunnan

Stone Forest Scenic Area

Stone Forest Scenic Area is located in Shilin County, Kunming, and is one of Kunming's key attractions. Stone Forest Scenic Area is a typical karst landscape, with stone peaks, stone buds, sinkholes, and underground rivers everywhere. The peak forest transforms into various forms—sword-shaped, tower-shaped, mushroom-shaped, and more—bizarre and magnificent. The entire scenic area consists of the Major and Minor Stone Forest, Naigu Stone Forest, Dadieshui, Changhu, and other sections. These sections are relatively scattered, and regular tours are mainly concentrated in the Major and Minor Stone Forest area. The Major and Minor Stone Forests are located in the same area. Walk along the path for 20 minutes, and on your left is the smaller Minor Stone Forest Scenic Area with relatively gentle stone peaks. Amid a dense cluster of peaks stands the famous Ashima Rock, where the towering peak forest transforms into a graceful Yi girl named Ashima, as if beckoning to you. This is a favorite spot for visitors to take photos. Besides the pretty Ashima, the Minor Stone Forest area also features views such as Shenjun and Cushi Qingtian, each with its own distinct shape. This is a test of your imagination. If your imagination is not vivid enough, it is recommended to hire a guide, under whose guidance you will gain a whole new understanding of the peak forest before your eyes. As you slowly drive along the highway, the roadside unfolds in turn with Tang Monk Rock, Stone Prison, Phoenix Preening Its Feathers, Lingzhi Rock, and more—each vividly lifelike and exquisitely true to form, displaying the wondrous craftsmanship of nature to you in all manner of poses. Walking along the passageway, you will unexpectedly arrive at the Major Stone Forest area. After passing such wonders as "Two Birds Feeding Each Other," "Rhinoceros Gazing at the Moon," "Lotus Peak," "Stone Forest Wonderland," and "Stone Screen," you may be feeling a bit tired. Taking a short rest at Lion Pavilion and admiring the reflection of the peak forest in Lion Pond across the way is a serene pleasure in itself. After seeing so many peak forests, it is only natural to feel some aesthetic fatigue. It is time to enjoy the water scenery. Board a cruise on Stone Forest Lake and drift across the water, where mountain scenery and lake views come together in one place, and all your stress and worries simply melt away. Naigu Stone Forest, also known as New Stone Forest or Mozhai Stone Forest, is composed of the Stone Forest Scenic Area, Baiyun Lake, Shifeng Mountain, and Yougu Xianpu Waterfall. Compared with the Major and Minor Stone Forests, this place presents another style. The peak forest here is overall grayish-black, with tall and densely packed stone pillars in castle, tower, and mushroom shapes. The simple and rugged grotesque rocks surge skyward like waves with magnificent momentum. Strolling through the black peak forest feels like entering a wild and primitive world.

No. 2 of Best Things to Do in Yunnan

Dianchi Lake

Dianchi Lake, also known as Kunming Lake, is the sixth-largest freshwater lake in China. Its expansive and magnificent surface has earned it the reputation of "five hundred li of Dianchi Lake" since ancient times. As one of the larger plateau lakes in Yunnan Province, Dianchi Lake is surrounded by numerous waterfront parks and wetlands, making it an unmissable stop when visiting Kunming. Every winter, large flocks of black-headed gulls fly all the way from Siberia to Dianchi Lake to spend the winter. This spectacle has occurred faithfully every year since 1985, and feeding the black-headed gulls along the lakeshore has become a highly popular winter experience in Kunming. Strolling along the sightseeing road on the east bank of Dianchi Lake is a great way to experience the lake up close. On one side is the vast, misty expanse of water, with the Western Hills stretching across the distance; in winter, the sightseeing road is especially lively, as residents and visitors alike stop by the lakeside to interact with the black-headed gulls. For a different perspective, you can take the cableway from the lakeside to Dragon Gate in the Western Hills and look down from above, taking in the entire Dianchi Lake at a glance. In the Caohai area at the northern end, you can also take a boat out on the lake and experience its vastness from the water. In recent years, through sustained governance, the water quality and lakeside ecology of Dianchi Lake have gradually improved, the wetland views along the lake are also continuously being restored, and the sightseeing environment has been significantly enhanced compared to the past.